On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 11:43:03AM -0400, Ted Unangst wrote: > I recently learned that our grep does not support the \<\> syntax for > word boundaries, only the somewhat more difficult to use [[:<:]] format. > It's fairly easy to convert one to the other however.
\< and \> are regex extensions for vi and ex. sed, awk, egrep, more don't support it either. I see no need to change grep. bluhm
